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ONE HUNDRED REASONS 

WHY EYEEY IIAN WHO LOVES GOOD GOYEENMENT, HTJM:^fl^ 
EIGHTS, ECONOMY, HONESTY, PEOGEESS, FEEEDOM OF 
SPEECH,- FEEEDOM OF THE PEESS, LLBEETY, .' \$^ 
EQUALITY, AND FEATEENITY, ^<-^^^ 

SHOtJED'YOTE FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT <}RANT. 



KOmNATION. 

1. Be(?auae the Convention which renomlrated 

President Grant represented the people more per- 
fectly than any other similar convention which has 
ever been held, and though Iho delegates numbered 
seven hundred and filt}-, tliere were not thirty oflBce- 
holders amougf them. Their nomination of Grant 
was unanimous, spontaneous, and enthusiastic, as 
was also his nomination in 1863. 

2. Because a triumphal ratification o^ this Domi- 
uation hv the people at the polls will also carry with 
it a Republican Con^^ess, and will insure us a P.e- 

Eublicau Cabinet of such able Secretaries as George 
. Boutwell and those ot the other Departments. 

REPUBLICAN MEASUEEa. 

3. -Because the measures of the administration 
have been so admirable that the Ciueinnati-Ealtimore 
platform, so far as it contains anything really worthy, 
is only in accordance with Republican action, the 
spirit of Republicanism beitg always progressive, 
and its poli,cv always extending and modifying itself 
as the exigencies of the nation or the wants of the 
people require it. 

(fokeigN relations and policy. 

4. Because President Grant has- maintained our 
rights with every foreign power, and kept the peace 
with all the world ; and this while preserving our 
national dignity in all its extent, and receivlog and 
reciprocating all national courtesies and amenities, 
though wars and revolutions in Europe and on this 
side of the Atlautic, have rendered such a course a 
task only to be executed by wisdom and statesman- 
ship of the highest order. 

5. BeCHUse Pref>ident Grant has negotiated far 
more favorably with England than preceding ad- 
ministrations, and has introduced the principle of 
arbitration in the settlement of diflfereuces between 
nations, which will inure to the interests of peace 
and the hapi)iness of the world. It will establisti a 
new epoch of justice and comity among nations. 

6. Bec-AU.-e President Grant has evinced in his 
messages a complete conception of that loreign policy 
which ihf interests ot America demand, and which 
national justice and honor require. The Monroe 
Doctrine Teccives his full sanction, and in relation to 
it he says: ''The time is not far distant when, in the 
natural coarse of events, the Europeau political con- 
nection with this contioeni will cease. The colonial 
dependencies (of trans- Atlantic governments) are no 
longer regarded as subject to transfer Irom one 
European power to another. When the present re- 
lation 01 colonies ceases they tirL- to become inde- 
pendent powers, exerciting the riglit of choice and 
self-contiol in the determination oi their future eon- 
ditiou and relation witu other powers." 

PtTBLIC DEBT AND ITS REDUCTION. 

7. Because the present administration fonid a 
debt, exclusive of interest, amounting to $2, 700,000,- 
OOO, and from ihe4ta of March, 1869, to July 1, 1872, 
(thn;e years ana five--months,) paid §333,976.916.39 
of- it, 



8. Because, while during the whole administra- 
tiou of Andrew Johnson, this debt was only reduced 
$13,655,668, the reduction under Grant for'forty-one 
months has been $3,349,422 each month. 

9. Because the administration has already paid 
IS 21 -100 per cent, of the whole debt, and at that rate 
noi. a vestige of It will remain in twenty-one years. 

10. Because this has been accomplished when 
Grant found prices inflated, trade deranged, the 
country flooded with paper money worth from 35 to 
71 cents on the dollar, the opposition declaring the 
debt could never be paid, some of the leaders de- 
manding repudiation, and a National Democratic 
Convention insisting its payment should not be made 
in coin. 

11. Because the republican party is the only one 
which can be dependea upon for a certain, prompt, 
and faithfa! payment ol the public debt. For the 
same reason ou'" public credit depends upon the Re- 
publicans. 

REDUCTION OF TAXES. 

12. Because, while under Johnson, the annual in- 
ternal taxes and customs duties were $355,885,560,99, 
under Grant, these taxes have been reduced at an 
average of $137,738,409,09 each year of his adminis- 
tration. 

13. Because, except on whiskey, beer, tobacco and 
a portion of the stamp tax, internal taxes are almost 
entirely abolished, and the President says in one of 
his messages that, " by steadiness in our present 
course there is no reason why, in a few short years, 
the national tax-gatherer may not disappear from 
the door ot the citizen almost entirely." 

14. Because it has been one of the cardinal princi* 
pies ot this Adrainistratiou to reduce taxation as 
much as was compatiole with the public interests, 
and how laillifully this has been done, is illustrated 
by the fact that, if the average rates of taxation, 
durimr the. last three years of Johnson's administra- 
tion had been continued and extended over the past 
three year,- of Grant's administration, the receipts 
into the treasury would have been greater than they 
were bv the sum of $288,800,000, all of which im- 
mense amount has been left iu the pockets of the 
people, being at the rate of $96,266,666 a year. 

SAVING OF rSTEREST. ^y 

15. Because the saving of interest made by thia 
Administration has been $22,401,087 in com each 
year. 

16. Because $300,000,000, of bonds have been re- 
funded ai 43^ and 5 per cent., thus saving an annual 
interest of $->,UOO,000, and up to the maturity of the 
new bonds will save $20,00u,000, and lead to the -re* 
funding of Sl,u00,000 more at still lower interest. 

17. iiecause tlie premium on gold, which ranged 
as high as forty per cent, when Grant was elected 
President has beeu as low under his administration 
as eleven per cent. 

TEA AND COFFEH. 

18. Because this Administration, mindful of the 
universal consumjition ot tea and cott'ee among all 
cla8s*;8, poor as well as rich, has m."de these articles 



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wholly (reo.'cuoosiofr I'atlicr to tiiXthe luxuries of 
wealth ihan foe comiorte yt thi^ working<nan. 

10. Because, bv this beui-fici-'nt ami republican 
logislatio'i, the people are reUeved of a burden v->f 
$18,000,000 a year, mo ^t of it paid by the workinii 
classes, who are equal consumers of tea and collee 
with the rich, and who constitute by far the groat 
est number of purchasers. 

PENSIONS TO SOI,DIERS. 

20. Because, notwithstanding all the reductions 
which the Administration has made ot the public 
debt and ot the interest upon it, and of the public 
taxes, pensions to soldiers have been lartielv in- 
creased, and large appropriations have been made to 
improve rivers and harbors. 

21. Because the Republican party is the only one 
which can be depended upon to continue to pay, dur- 
'ns; their whole existence, the pensions assigned to 
I'yal soldiers, crippled and disabled in tightiny- 
.' ainst rebellion and treason, a;id the widows and 
or bans of those who offered up their lives on tlie 
alte.- of the freedom and anion of this Republic. 

COLLECTION OF TAXES. 

22. Because, althoutrh under the present adminis- 
tration, the annual reduction of taxes has been 
$137,738,409.0y, collections have increased §84,000,- 
OOo a year, lh*us showing the rigid accountability 
which has been introduced into the revenue service, 
and the honesty with which it has been conducted. 

23. Because it is this administration which has 
consummated all these benefits, has honestly col- 
lected, wisely applied and accounted for the vast 
6ums of money expended, has reduced the expenses, 
upheld the public eredit, cheapened the interest, and 
made the greenbacks almost as good as gold, though 
only worth half their face under Andrew Johnson. 

24.' Because, while from ^March 1, ls66, to March 
1, 1869, the last three years under Johnson, the total 
tax receipts Irora spirits, tobacco, fermented liquors, 
banks and bankers, gas, adhesive stamps and penal- 
ties were $231,153,714, during; the three years under 
Grant, from March 4, 1869, to March l", 1672, they 
were $339,350,353, showing a gain in favor of the 
administration of $108,202,(539, being over $36,000,000 
annually, or an increase of 47 pi;rccnt. 

PUKCHASE AND SUPPRESSION GF BONDS. 

25. Because this administration under the admir- 
able management and financial wisdom of Secretary 
Boutwell has eflfected a large saving of public money, 
and has made u large reduction ot public indebted- 
ness by the purchase and suppression of bonds to the 
amount ot $265,755,450. A savinir has thus been 
made of $15,147,303.24 in gold, and this without any 
derangement of the currency or detriment to the 
public credit, or breach of contract on the part of the 
Government. 

KEDCCTION OF EXPBTNSES. 

26. "Because, owing to the foregoing reductions the 
"expenses this year are less f jr each individual than 
they were under Washington, and less than they 
were under any administration since, with only four 
■exceptions, and in the case of these four the advant- 
age is only apparent, and but a few cents. 

27. Because, under Buchanan, in 1860, the popula- 
tion being 31,443,321, the expenses were $1.95 for 
each per.son, and in 1871, under Grant, the popula- 
tion being 38,555,983, the expenses were $1.76 lor 
each person. 

28. Because, while in 1860, the whole amount ex- 
)peuded tor public buildings, improvement of rivers 
«ind harbors, and other public works throughout the 
country, was only $2,913,371.48, in 1871 the amount 
paid tor suoh improvement was $10,733,759.05, and 
making allowance for the increased payments of this 
kind, the expense ;>er fopiJa under Grant is as small 
as it has ever been since the foundation of ° the! Gov- 
•rnmeDt. 



29. Because, while Trumbull said at Hhe •Cooper 

Institute th:!t the expenses of the Government, in 
conrcquence ol the increased popuhuion and in- 
creased demand, and aside from interest and pen- 
sions, outrht not to be more than 33 per c«nt. irreater 
than before the war, they are actually only 13 per 
cent, greater, being $61,402,408.64 in 1860, and only 
$6.S,684,613.92 in lb71. 

30. Because the ret»renchment and reform in Gov- 
ernment expenses already so extensively carried out, 
wherever the public interests permit. 'VTill be con- 
tinued in every possible direc!,ion, and direct taxa- 
tion for naiional expenses will be soon w-holly extinct. 

81. Because this'Administration has performed an 
admirable work, such as no Guvernnient on earth 
has ever previously exhibited — that of a vastly in- 
creased extinguishment of the public debt, and a very 
large simultaneous reduction of taxsction. 

COST OF COLLECTING THE KEVENUE. 

32. Becanse, under Republican rale, the cost of 
collecting the customs revenue has been reduced 
more than one halt since 1860. In that year the per 
centage of cost to collections was $6.25; in 1868, it 
was 14.06; in 1870, it was $3.20, and in 1871, it was 
$8.11. 

OrVIL SEKVICE KEFORM. 

33. Because Grant is the first President who _eve.r 
recommended and inaugurated a system of Civil 
Service Reform which makes office dependent upon 
lairiy conducted and eompetilive exammatiousj 
which makes dismission from the pul)lic service to 
nepend upon misconduct, which leaves the attain- 
ment of office open to all clashes of citizens alike, ir- 
respective of political opinions and religions craeds, 
and which deprives the National Executive of all 
benefits to be derived from clerical appointments. 

84. Because to adopt such a sfystem and to put it 
in operation just on the eve of a Presidential election 
where the Presi{lent is himself a candidate, shows 
how devoted he is to the free and unbiassed rule of 
the people. 

35. Because Grant has always disapproved of com- 
pulsory payment by the civil service of the Govern- 
ment of contributions for political purposes, or any 
arbitrary assessmen ts for such purposes, expressly 
declaring that no oflScer of any kind should be dis- 
missed or proscribed for repudiating such levies, thus 
leaving all untrammelled and entirely free. Tuis is 
the action of eveiy Department under Grant, and is 
exactly tne reverse of preceding Oemocratie Admin- 
istrations. 

DEFAUlTEKS 'AND rOEFALC ATI0N9. 

36. Because delinquents and defaulters have been 
detected, pursued, convicted and punished under 
Grant with an energy and vigor unsurpassed by any 
preceding Administration, owing to increased vigi- 
lance in the scrutiny of accounts and a stern euforcd- 
ment of the responsibilities of ofticial station. 

37. Because luur-fitths of the cases of official de- 
linquency and nine- tenths of the loss occasioned 
thereby, have been entailed through the corruption . 
of officials, the responsibility for whose appointment 
rested upon the previous Administration, wuile the 
present Administrat'on has exposed their dishonesty, 
removed them from office, and, as far as practicable, 
punished their crimes, 

38. Because, under Grant, the Democratic rule in 
regard to official rascals has been reversed, and in- 
stead of going out of office with applause, they now 
go out oi office to be iacarcerated in a prison— for 
fully two-thirds of the embezzlers and defaulters 
who have been deflected during the past three years 
are now in jail. 

39. Because Secretery Boutwell, in a public speech 
fully vindicates the present Administration in com- 
porison with others in regard to defaulters. He sayu 
appoiateea of Mr, Liacoln ara defauUera to tb«i 



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^ ftfaoJitit:i\f'8929.00O } of Mr. Johnson, $1,755,660 5 ol 
^^ General Grant, $64,581. 

I ~> BALANCES OP APPROPRIATION. 

-1 40. Because one of the great financial reforms now 
^ in operation is due to the present Administration, 
""and was established in accordance with the views 
^and recommendations of Secretary Boutwell. This 
is to make every fiscal year pay its own expenses, 
and at the end of pnch period to covor all unex- 
pended balances into the general national fund of the 
United States Treasury, from wliich they cannot bo 
drawn except ia accordance with an express act of 
Congress. Under Democratic rule, large balances 
annually remained in the Treasury which could be 
used by the Department or Bureau for which thev 
were originally appropriated and even independent ol' 
the original appropriation. Now this is completely 
reformed, and the funds cannot be used improperly 
or corruptly, thus proving the honesty of the Aa- 
ministration anid its fidelity to financial accuracy, in- 
tegrity and economy. 

INVESTIGATIONS. 

•41. Because, notwithstanding there were fourteen 
*' investigations" instigated or rendered necessary 
by Democratic slander and misrepresentation, not- 
withstanding every means of scrutiny whetner re- 
quiring persons, papers or n:itional expense, were 
placed at the disposal of the most vindictive enemies 
of the Administration, notwithstanding weelis and 
months were consumed in the examination of all the 
witnesses they chose to cnll, the result was to show 
that the Government was untarnished with fraud or 
corruption. 

AMNESTY. 

42. Because the blatant amnesty cry of the Demo 
crats is slopped by Grant's early recommendation of 
it, and its adoption by a Republican Congress. The 
vindictive and scandalous misrepresentation upon 
this Subject by the nefarious coalition opposed to 
Grant is completely answered by Grant's own words 
in Ills message sent to Congress in December, 187o. 
"More than six years having elapsed,'' he says, 
'"since the last hostile gun was fired between the 
armies then arrayed against each other, one lor the 
preservation, the other for the destruction ot the 
Union, it may wt^ll be considered whether it is not 
now time that the disabilities imposed by the four- 
teenth amendment should be removed." He goes 
on to areue the question at length, to the shame of 
the tactions disorganizers who are guilty of such 
gross falsehood, respecting his views. 

43 Because President Grant, while brave, con- 
qaeiiP'j, and where necessii}^ required it, inflexible 
in war and iu peace, has been so magnanimous as to 
provoke criticism, and has shown kmdness to South- 
ern rebels that ought to crimson the cheeks of those 
who represent him as relentless and nnforgiving. 
When Lee surrendered his sword. Grant said : "Tell 
your b^ys they can take their h..rses home with them 
to help them make their crops." When it was con- 
temi)lated under Johnson to try Lee and his fellow 
office:^ lor treason. Grant said : " General Lee and 
hii^ otBcers and troops, who have been duly paroled 
cannot he arrested and tried lor treason. I protest 
against their arrest." 

4-1. Because the very men who represent Grant as 
opposed to amnesty thow the hollowness of their 
pretensions,' when they support for the Presidency, a 
man who, on the 1st of Maj-. ISGl, said : "When the 
rebellions traitors are scattered like leaves before an 
anu'ry v.'ind, it must not be to return to pence/id and 
contented homen. Ihey muxt find proivrt'/ ot their 
fireside and xee privatiori in the nvxious eyes of mot/mrti 
and the rags of chihlroi.'''' 



THB 18th, 14tB and 15Ttt AMENDMENTS. 

■^45. Becausa the Republican party alone can main^ 
tain those constitutional amendments, which pro- 
vide against the payment of the public debt con- 
tracted hy the rebel States in their effort to destroy 
the Union, or to pay the former masters for their 
emancipated slaves, which amendments all the Gree- 
leyites of the South, and many of them at the North, 
declare to be unconstitutional, and that they should 
be nullified. ^ 

46. Because the Republican party is wholly en- 
titled to the transcendent renown of having conceived 
and established the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, 
the great charters of personal liberty, the elective 
franchise, the right of self-government — each and all 
of them encountering the most envenomed, the 
fiercest and the most vindictive opposition in the 
power of the Democrats. 

IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE. 

47. Because impartial suffrage, originated and, af- 
ter many an embittered contest, established by the 
Republican party, has been protected and main. 
tained by this administration, and will surely be im- 
paired, obstrtfcted and prevented unless Grant is re- 
elected. 

48. Because President Grant, from the commence- 
ment of the rebellion, has been a decided and most 
earnest friend of suffrage for the colored man, and in 
his Inaugural of March 4, 1869, he expressed him- 
self thus emphatically concerning the 15th amend- 
ment. "The question of suffrage is one which is 
likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the 
citizens ot the nation are excluded from its privileges 
in any State. It seems to me desirable that tbe ques- 
tion should be settled now, and 1 entertain the hope 
and express the desire that it may be by the ratifica- 
tion of the 15th article of amendment to the constitu- 
tion." Not contented with these timely and effective 
words, he addressed a mes.sage to Cangress on the 
ratification of the amendment, and made it a medium 
of counsel and encouragement to the enfranchised 
race, and of appeal to the nation in their behalf. 

PUBLIC CREDIT. 

49. Because the credit of the country has constantly 
improved under this administration, the price of 
American securities has steadily advanced, and the 
appreciation of our paper money is marked by the 
fall of gold from $1.32 in 1869 to $1.11 in 1872. 

50. Because through the wise management of this 
admin istra'tion, American securities are equal in value 
to gold, although they were 17 per cent, below it; 
and even that violent Democratic partisan, James 
Brooks, was constrained to admit that " our public 
credit ha.s been lifted to an enviable position through- 
out the whole world." 

INDIAN POLICY. 

51. Because a new policy has been adopted by the 
present administration in our national relations with 
the Indians, the policy of kindness, conciliation and 
peace, whereby during the past three years more than 
80,000 Indians have been brought under the super- 
vision of onr government, and in all the immense ex- 
tent of territory which yet intervenes betweea the 
settled portionsof the country, not more than 50,000 
roaming Indians are j'ct remaining in it to be reached. 

52. Because, through the special efforts and direc- 
tion of the administration large numbers of Indians 
are being persuaded to cultivate the lands of their 
reservations, and there are carpenters, blacksmiths, 
farmers, miller.^ and teachers to the number of UOO 
among them for the purpose ot instructioQ. 

53. Because Grant prefers to expend small amounts 
of money to pacify, civilize aud iustruct tbe Indiana, 



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rather than tnitlions upon millions, as heretofbro, to 
infuriate and kill them. He says to Conp:ress, " I 
recommend liberal appropriations to carry out the 
Indian peace policv, not only because it is more 
christian-like and economical, but because tt is right. 

EQUAL LIBERIT FOR ALL, WHITE OR BLACK. 

54. Because the Republican party has always been 
the true advocate and exponent of libertv, and now 
is the only party in these United States which bears 
that character. Durino: the late atrocious rebellion 
nnd bloodv war it buried 350,000 men to maintain the 
Government nf this country and the Union of these 
States upon the bas's of freedom, for equal universal, 

'impartial liberty, liberty for all clas'^es of mankind, 
■without distinction of race, color or birth. 

55. Because the Rennbrcan partv, affer it had 
broken the fetters of 4,000,000 of human beincrs, did 
not stop with that noble act, nut held the doctrine 
that the poorest and the blackest man istho equal of 
the whitest and the richest. It gave to the frecdmen, 
civil and politipal rio;hts till now the poorest black 
man, before the law, is the equal of the former domi- 
nant race. 

5r>. BecauPrt Wilh'am Lloyd Garrison^ Gerritt Smitli, 
Wendell Phillips, Frederick Donglas'^, and the whole 
body of the " original abolitionists," men ever de- 
voted to the colored men, and proloundly acquainted 
with all that concerns their interest, are deeply im- 
pressed with a conviction that their lives and tor- 
tunes depend on preservinn; the ascendency of the 
Kepublican party. 

grant's- NOBLE CONDUCT TO COLORED MEN. 

57. Becanse, President Grant, dnring the war al- 
ways occupied an advanced position in respect to 
the as'^istance, encouragement and kind treatment 
which he extended to fuofitive slave.*^, pnd this before 
iho Government had fixed its anti-?l'iverv policy. 
Experience and observation very early made him 
comprohend tl^e situation, and no previous opinions 
lorme'1 without sufEcient li^rht, no partv prejudices 
or afDliations could prevent him from immediately 
actine; as far as he could, with humanity and justice 
to the colored race, 

5S. Because, as early as November 11. 1862. before 
Lincoln had issued hi's g;rcat Emancipation Procla- 
mation, and when thousand^-; of colored men, women 
and children, thronged his camp, he, by special orders. 
Numbers 13 and 15, directed sruards to be e.«tab- 
lished for their protection, ([uartcrs to be assigned 
lor their use, clothes and provisions to be furnished 
for their necessities, employment to be given them, 
and proper compensation to be paid for their labor. 
The oflicers attcndintr to the^e duties were ordered to 
report to him personally, and he proved himi^ell' em- 
phatically the tiumanc, provident and judicious 
friend of those poor fugitives. 

50. Because his sagacity in the winter of 1865, 
practically inaugurated the Freedmen's Bureau, and 
all colored persons were provided by him with means 
to teach them self-support, and to "minister to their 
moral and intellectual devclopement, as well as to 
their physical needs. 

60. Because he was among the very earliest of our 
Generals to encourage the enlistment of colored men, 
to recognise their eqnahty before the law, and to give 
them an honorable position in 'the :irmy. As a Gen- 
eral he appreciated the vast amount of &id such a 
course would afford the course of lovftlty, and as a 
statesman he comprehended the benefit it" would con- 
tor upon the colored race. 

61. Becau-^e General Grant was among the first of 
those who fully and unequivocally took official step.- 
to protect colored soldiers. In "a letter to General 
Lee, dated October 19, 1864, Grant said: "I shall 
always regret the necessity of retaliating for wrongs 



done our Boldiers, but regard it my duty to proted 
ALL persons received into t^ Army of the Vnitea States 

REGAJtDLESS of COLOR Or NATIONALITY." 

62. Because Grant conceived the idea of placing 
freedmen on Southern lands, and protecting them in 
their work, which he faithfully and successfully did 
even amidst all the cares, aetails, responsibilities and 
dangers of the seigeot Vicksburg, even in the busiest 
times, giving his cheerful attention to their communi- 
cations and wants, and organizing free labor wher- 
ever he went. 

63. Because Grant was convinced fr<>m the com- 
mencement of the rebellion, that slavery must be 
abolished, that liberty might live, and in a letter to 
Mr. Washburne, dated August 30, 1868, he said, of 
the " sum of all villamies " that he would not " be 
willinc to see any settlement uniUthis question is for- 
ever settled." 

64. Because President Grant, on all proper occa- 
sions, has advocated the political and civil riorhts of 
the colored people and has given them prominence, 
not only in his private utterrances, but in his execu- 
tive messages and official communications, as -in his 
message in regard to Mississippi and Virginia, April 
7, 1869, and in his first annual message, where he 
cordially commends the freedmen for their rapid pro- 
gress in learning, their industry, and good conduct, 
and declares that all should be protected " without 
reference to original nationality, religion, color, or 
politics, only giving in return obedience to laws and 
proper reSpect for the right of others." 

65. Because the Republican party, by express law, 
secured the remaining public lands of the Southern 
States exclusively to the actual settlers, thus afford- 
ing tlie poorer calsses, whether white or colored, to 
becomp freeholders, to possess homes of their own, 
to establish schools, to form communities and to 
be in all respects free and independent citizens. 

APPOINTMENT OP COLORED MEN TO OFFICE. 

66. Because in all departments of the civil service 
President Grant has appointed colored men to office, 
and among these appointments are Foreign Ministers, 
Collectors of Customs, Assessors of Revenue, Route 
Agents, Postmasters, Clerks, Messengers, etc., etc.. 
and this not grudgingly or exceptionally, but largely 
and honorably, and taking pleasure in rewarding 
merit and doing justice to ability. 

GRANT AND THE KU KLUX KLANS. 

67. Because President Grant, so far as the law 
would allow him to go, has interposed between our 
colored fellow-citizens and the infamous, merciless, 
ferocious and brutal Ku-Klux assassins. For this 
interposition he has been denourced as an ambitious 
Cassar and an unconstitutional tyrant; but neither 
vituperation or threats have had the smallest influ- 
ence to deter him from the execution of this or any 
other duty. While he has endeavored to secure effi- 
cient legislation and protection lor the black and 
white loyalists of the South, the great mass of the 
present Greeley coalition fought against every such 
attempt, and now to fill the cup of impudent atrocity, 
they call upon the colored men to abandon their 
benefactor. 

PD3LIC LANDS AND WOKKINGMEN. 

68. Because the Republican party, being the party 
of the people and of the workinsrmen, has always had 
their interests in view in the management, sale and 
distribution of the public lands. While the Demo- 
crats, ns a party, legislating heretofore in the inter- 
ests of slave-holders, did not favor grants of lauds 
for the purpose of opening up onr immense Western 
regions to emigration and settlement, for educational 



purposes, and for distribution in limited quantities 
to actual settlers, the Republicans have constantly en- 
deavored to do tins. They favored grants of public 
lands for railroads, canals, and Wagon-roads so Ions: 
as the interest of the poor man and actual settler de- 
manded it, and with the attainment of that object 
they regard the public domain as sacred to the poor 
and enterprising emigrants, who there seek to cre- 
ate a country and to possess homes of their own. 
When this policy came up for consideration in the 
House of Representatives every republican member 
voted for it; 

HOMESTEAD LAW. 

69. Because the homestead law was established by 
the Republican party, and is one of the first fruits 
of its ascendancy, the bill having been vetoed^ by 
that creature of tne i^lavcholders — James Buchanan — 
in which act he manifested the antagonism to work- 
ing-men which must animate all who enforce servile 
labor. 

fkeedman's bureau. • 

70. Because the Republican party, not content with 
piving freedom to the slaves, established the Freed- 
man's Bureau in order to give them an education, 
protect their rights, secure them employment and 
compensation, instruct them in trades and the me- 
chanic arts, and finally, to crown the whole and 
make them citizens indeed, endowed them with the 
ballot, thus enabling them to maintain their own po- 
litical and personal rights, alike against injustice, 
aggression, and prejudice. 

EPUCATION AND WORKINGMEN. 

71. Because the Republican party, in the State and 
in the nation, is devoted to educatiofi, to the improve- 
ment, development and elevation of all classes, but 
especially of the workingmen. Amidst Democratic 
hatred, opposition and denunciation, the Republicans 
have persevered in their beneficient legislation for 
these purposes. It was they who established public 
schools in the District of Columbia, who instituted 
a Department of Education, who incorporated the 
Howard University, who have created Agricultural 
and Mining schools in the various States and Terri- 
tories, who have set apart the proceeds of the public 
lands tor the support of public schools, who exacted 
that the Rebel States should not be re-admitted un- 
less their State constitutions provided for a perma- 
nent public school system for all classes, and who are 
anxious to make every citizen as eminent for intel- 
lectual culture, as he ia for freedom and self-govern- 
ment.; 

72. Because President Grant, both as a citizen and 
as the Chief Magistrate of the nation, heartily con- 
curs in these views and gives them utterance in his 
various messages. ** The subjects of edueation and 
agricultural," he says, "are of great interest to the 
success of our Republican inptitutions, happiness and 
grandeur as a nation"; "the setting apart sections of 
public land for educational purposes should be con- 
tinued.''; "education is the groundwork of Repub- 
lican institutions"; "the true prosperity and great- 
ness of a nation is to be found in the elevation and 
education of its laborers." Such is the uniform 
tenor of his opinion on this important subjecl^ show- 
ing huasafc/vwise and enlightened, 

JEIGHT HOUR LAW. 

73. Because the Republican party, in the Congress 
of 1865-66, introduced the first bill, ever proposed by 
any legislators, to constitute eiirht hours a legal days 
work. But as even some Republicans, like Lyman 
Trumbull (n(»w among his conirenial associates, the 
Democrats) united with the other opponents of the 
measure, the true Republieaas, whose measure it was, 
were not able to cariy4t'*uotil -June, 1868, when it 
^as passed. 



74. Because President Grant, schooled in tnantial 
labor and a workingman himself, was alive, from the 
first, to the importance of tin • eight hour law, and 
of the immense influence its legal enactment by the 
Government, would exercise in private worKshops, 
corporations, farms, and the whole country. He 
sanctioned it with zeal, and when on some of the 
public works, though only eight hours labor a day 
was exacted, the price of two hours work was with- 
held, he interposed, Mav 19, 1869, iu a proclamation 
to prevent such redaction. On other instances of the 
abuse being brought to his notice, he again stretched 
forth the executive arm to protect the laborer, and on 
May 11, of the present year, he issued another proc- 
lamation, which has efifectually, and in all its signifi- 
cance, established this reform for every employee of 
the Government. 

WORKINGMEN. 

75. Because President Grant never alludes to the 
workingman without a tender appreciation and kind 
recognition, which shows how deeply he regards his 
interest. This is repeatedly manife>ted in his mes- 
sages, where the " laborer," the " freedman," the 
"tiller of the soil," the "pioneer," the "actual set- 
tler" are all considered in terms of commendation, 
wise measures are proposed for their benefit, and 
honest industry and hard-handed toil are awarded the 
honor and regard tney deserve. " Agriculture," he 
says : " agriculture is the ground-work of our pros- 
perity." If Henry IV wished that "every pea- 
sant in his kingdom had a chicken in his pot each 
Sunday for his dinner," Grant not only win/ies but 
does his utmost to make every workingman a free- 
holder, an educated citizen, and as one of the people, 
a sovereign. 

76. Because the Republican party, through the 
eleventh resolution of its National convention, iden- 
tified itself as the party of the workingmen, and as 
the party which gives due honor and dignity to labor 
and to capital, tue above mentioned resolution says : 
" Among the questions which press for attention is 
that which concerns the relations of capital and labor, 
and the Republican party recognizes the duly of so 
shaping legislation as to secure full protection, and 
the amplest, for capital and for labor, the creator of 
capital, the largest opportunities and o just share of 
the mutual profits oj these two great servants of 
civilization." \ • 

grant's civil QUALIFICATIONS. 

77. Because President Grant, duriug the three 
years of his administration, has exhibited qualities 
and capacity as a civil ruler which may well be com- 
pared with his trauscendant military abilities, and 
have made him alike, in war and in peace, an in- 
valuable protector and conservator of the rights of 
all classes and the liberly ol the whole country. 

78. Because his excellence us a Civil Magistrate, 
his safe, considerate, humane, judicious, ;ind pro- 
gressiva political views are strikingly manifested in 
his Inaugural Address and the Annual Messages he 
has transmitted to Congress, in these thoughtlul 
and well-considered papers he says that " on all sul)- 
jects I shall have a policy to recornrnend, but none to 
eTi/brte against the will of the people;" that "the 
laws are to govern all alike ; " that he " promises a 
rigid adherence to the laws and their strict enforce- 
ment;" that his " policy has been to learu the spirit 
and intent of laws enacted, and to enforce tnem' ac- 
cordingly :" that It is his " determination to do, to 
the best of^ his aljility, all that shall be required of 
him by his oath of otlice;" promises precious to'the 
nation, and which he has conspicuously fulfilled. 

COMHEKCB, MANUFACTURES, AND TARIFF. 

79. Because President Grant, as should ever be the 
case with a Chief Magistrate, keeps wisely in view 
aU the £:reat interests of the country, well aware how 



closely the various bnslnees avocations of a great 
republic are intermingled and woven together. He 
esoecially, in hig mespao;es, calls the attention of 
Congress to th6 state of our commerce. He says : 
"The whole nation is interested in securing cheap 
transportation from the agricultural States of the 
"West to the Atlantic sea-board. To these States it 
secures a greater return tor their labor; to the in- 
habitants of the sea-board it atfords cheaper food ; to 
the nation an increase in the annual surplus of 
wealth." Re suggested means for the revival of onr 
depressed commerce, the encouragement and exten- 
sion of our mercantile intercourse, the building of 
vessels, the increase of our s'liopins:, the enlargeiuent 
of our carryins trade, and kindred topics of promi- 
nent and vital importance. 

80. Because President Grant is in accord with the 
nation in fully appreciating the vast utility and in- 
estimable value of American manuf icture^. He ade- 
quatelv estimates the consumption they give to home 
products, and the employment and " support they 
furnish to so many thousands of our people. Ex- 
tensive as manufactures now are, President Grant 
€ays in one of his messages that " it 1= to be hoped 
they will become more and more diffused, making 
the interest in them equal in all sections." Unrler 
Eepublican rule they will ever receive that Judicious 
and constant encouragement Which is suited to their 
condition and needs. 

81. Because, under this administration, th« tariff, 
which from the foundation of our irovernment has 
been such a fruitful source of discordant sentiments, 
conflicting interests, and angry discussion, has been 
adjusted with a discrimination based upon experience 
and a fitness resulting from an impartial considera. 
tion of all interests and of the whole country. The 
adjustment made by the republicans of the last Con 
press is admitted even by democratic representatives, 
to be as wise and judicious as the present circucu- 
Btances and state of the country will permit. The 
recommendations of President Grant upon this im- 
portant subject were such as must find favor with all 
classes. He says that bv a tariflE" " which will put a 
duty only upon those articles which we could dis- 
pense with, known as luxuries, and on tliose which 
■we use more of than we produce, revenue enough 
may be raised, after a few years of peace and couse- 

. quent reduction of indebl'dness, to fulfill all our 
obligations." His ideas of "revenue reform" are 
alike practical and beneficial. 

82. Because the business interests of the country 
absolutelv require the thoughtful, safe, and judicious 
action which this administration has extended to 
them, and which would suffer wreck and destruction 
at the hands of the coalition now so desperately seek- 
ing to clutch the reins of power, and to turn the 
government into a mart for spoils and plunder. 

, IMMIGRATION' AND NATUR.VLIZATION. 

83. Because, notwithstanding the persistency of the 
Democratic party in seeking the votes of our natural- 
ized citizens, it is the Jiepiiblican party which is their 
real friend. The present Administration is the first 
that has put forth strenuous efforts for the safety and 
comfort of immigrants while on their way to our 
Bhores, for their protection after reaching our land, 
and for their security and equality after being na- 
turalized. To this end not only have treaties been 
■negotiated, but a special agent, peculiarly conver-i 
(Bant with the sutjject, and thoroughly imbued with 
interest in it, was dispatched to Europe to present it 
there, to exchange views and to obtain facts and in- 
formation. This task was performed with ability, 
and a comprepen^ive and well considered report was 
made upon it, which was published bv Congress, and 
a direction and force have tieen produced whicb in-' 
dicate the cordiality and welcome entertained by Re- 
publicans toward our naturalized citizens. 



84. Because President Grant has personally inter- 
ested himself in this subject, and has especially and 
at considerable lenglh called the attention of Coo- 
grefs to it. He says: "lovilations have been ex- 
tended to the cabinets of London, Paris, Florence, 
Berlin. Brussells, The Hague. Copenhagen, and 
Stockholn), to empower their representatives at 
Washington to simultaneously enter into negotia- 
tions, and to conclude with the United State«, con- 
ventions identical in form, making unifo-m rei'ula- 
tions as to the construction of the parts of vessels to 
be devoted to the use of emigrant passengers, as to 
the quality and quantity of food, as to the medical 
treatment of the sick, and as to the rules to be ob- 
served during the voyag'^, in order to secu'-e ventila- 
tion, to nromote health, to prevent intrusion, and to 
protect the temales, and providin"- f ^r the establish- 
ment of tribunals in the several countries, for enforc- 
ing such regulations by summary process. The 
number of immigrants ignorant of our latvs, 'lahits. 
etc., coniin^into our country annnally, has beeome 
so great, ana the impositions practised upon them so 
numerous and flagrant, that I suggest Congressional 
action for their protection. It seems to me a fair 
subject of legislation by Congress." 

85. Because the Republican party, always true to 
its fellowship with all men, irrespective of caste, 
color, creed or nationality, who seek our land in order 
to become peaceful and industrious citizens, has 
lately, in its National convention, called the attention 
of the nation to this subject by th" following resolu- 
tion : "The doctrine of Great Britain and other 
EuropeanTowers conce^nin? allegiance, 'once a sub- 
ject always a subject,' having at last, through the ef- 
forts of the Republican party, been abandoned and 
the American idea of the right to transfer allegiance 
having been accpted by European nations, it is the 
duty of our Government to guard with jealous care 
the right of adopted citizens against the assumption 
of unauthorized claims by their fi)rmer Government, 
and we urge continual, careful encouragement and 
protection of voluntary immigration." 

ALL CITIZENS TO BE PROTECTED. 

86. Because President Grant, as far as a factious 
and fiUibustering opposition would allow, has en- 
deavored to protect every American citizen, whether 
native or fo'eign born, and has been actuated by the 
sentiment of Solon, that " an injury done to the most 
humble individual should be regarded by the Gov- 
ernment as an outrage on the whole Constitution." 
And this, whether the victim was a lilack man in a 
Southern cabin, or a white ambassador in a foreign 
court 

POLYGAMY. 

; 87. Because, while admitting the sacred principle 
of religious liberty, and the right of every man and 
woman to entertain, to advocate, and to promulgate, 
as long as they respect the rights of others, any 
opinion whatever of a theological character, Presi- 
dent Grant is not willing to tolerate or to legalize 
Dolygamy in the United States or in any of our Ter- 
ritories. Upon this vi^al subject, he says : "In Utah 
there still remains a remnant of barbarism, repug- 
nant to civilization, to decency, and to the laws of 
the United States. Territorial. "officers, however, have 
been found who are willing to perform their duty, in 
a spirit of equity, and with a due sense of the neces- 
sity of sustainjng the majesty of the law. Neither 
polygamy nor any other violation of existinir statutes 
will be permitted within the territory of the United 
States. It is not with the religion of the self-styled 
Saints that we are dealing, but with their practices. 
They will be protected in the worship ot God, ac- 
cording to the dictates of their consciences, but they 
will not be permitted to violate the laws under the 
cloak of religion." 



WASerNGTON^LINCOLN, ANB.QRaNT^ 

88. Because tbe great services of Grant must ever 
enshrine his fame with that of Washington and Lin- 
coli). Washington secured our independence from 
loreiL'n domination. Lincoln proc. aimed liberty 
throughout all the land and released us from the 
cnrse of slavery. Grant rescued us from the calami- 
ties and dangers of a civil war such as never was 
waged befeire in anv age or land, and established us 
as a free nation. Washington gave us a rt public, 
afterwards unhappily corrupted by slavery. Lincoln 
purified, exalted, and regenerated it. Grant saved it 
Irom the desirucUon which parricidal hands madly 
endeavored to inflict, and has blessed us with pros- 
perity and peace. Washington was the founder, 
Lincoln the restorer. Grant the preserver of our 
liberty. Twice did the country call both Washing- 
ton and Lincoln to the Presidency, and the nation 
has now decreed the same term of service to Grant, 
their peer. 

graft's traducers. 

89. Because this nation owes it to itself to vindicate 
President Grant, who has made the United States 
famous throuirhout the world, from tbe calumny, 
vituperation, abuse, scandal and lies which the 
Greeley Democracy are heaping upon him, and trv- 
ing, in vain, to blacken him, and bring him down to 
the nefarious level of his assailants. The country 
cannot forbear to show its appreciation of an honest 
Chief Magistrate, thus baseiy traduced, by re-elect- 
ing him, although personally he scorns the shafts 
which are hurled at him, well knowing that time will 
give additional lustre to his fame, -while oblivion 
will swallow up his slanderers. Calm and secure, he 
views the impotent etTorts of his maligners illustrat- 
ing the lines of Goldsmith : 

"As some tall cliff that lifts its lofty form 
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, 
Thoug;h round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, 
Eternal sunshine settles on its head." 

grant's personal SACRrFICB. 

90. Because President Grant made a great personal 
sacrifice when he consented to be the Presidential 
candidate of the Republicans in 186S. He was at 
that time entirely content with his position, and 
pecuniarily it was far belter for him, but he gave it 
up at the call of the same country he had saved — he 
yielded his own wishes to that of the party of liberty 
and progress. Senator Wilton, in a speech delivered 
in Kendallville, Indiaua, relates his own personal 
knowledge concerning Grant's first nomination. He 
says: 

•' We went to Grant and said to him ' General, you 
must be our candidate,' his answer was ' I have' no 
public experience. There are hundreds of men in 
the country better fitted for the Presidency than I am. 
I am General of the army, and I have a good salary. 
It is a life office and I am a poor man. If I serve 
four years, 1 shall probably ihen go out and have 
nothing to do at m> ags of life, and I have no ].ro- 
fessif)n or trade by which to support my family. You 
had better talie somebody else.' I say here before 
man and God that that was General Grant's position 
four years ago. We thrust the candidacy fur the 
Presidency upon him, we made him take it, and the 
nation took him.'" 

grant's officiajl and domestic characteb. 

91. Because President Grant is personally and 
socially a man whom the people may justly admire, 
and for whom they may constantlv cherish an aftec- 



against "him are- wholly and entirely gronndles.*. 
General Grant is what the World calls "a family man. 
I don't beleive that is a bad man wno delights in the 
society of his wife and children. I have been to the 
White House often and say to you that I do not know 
a Congresr^man who knows so much about the condi- 
tiou of affairs in the United States as General Grant 
knows. I don't begin to know as much as he does. 
It is my candid opinion that a more honest, conscien- 
tious, upright and faithful man is not in public life in 
America. I s:iy this on my conscience ; and I say 
this at the same time that I admit that he has some 
faults." 

platform of principles. 

92. Because the platform of principles put forth bv 
the Republican National Convention, is one upon 
which every lover of freedom can stand, which ap- 
peals with a noble pride to the glorious acts of the 
Republican party during the past eleven jears, and 
marks out a course for tbe future alika suited to all 
sections of the country, and to all the inhabitants 
thereof. Liberty and equality ; civil, political and 
public rights; the constiLUtional amendments ; peace 
with foreign nations; civil service reform; public 
lands ; revenue and taxation ; honor, gratitude, and 
reniULeration to soldiers and sailors; protection to 
immigrants and naturalized citizens; the flanking 
privilege ; workingmen and capitalists ; the suppres- 
sion of violent and treasonable organizations, and 
the establishment of an honest, pure and free ballot 
everywhere ; denunciation of repudiation, and a 
sacred pledge to pay the public dobt; a tribute to 
the loyal women of America, and a just consideration 
lor the honest demands ol any class of citizens for 
additional riirhts ; amnesty ; powers ot the States and 
of the Federal Government ; the encouragement of 
commerce and ship-building ; and an enthusiastic 
endorsement of Grant and Wilson. These are the 
topics of the Republican platform, and there is noth- 
ing comprised in it which can fail to meet the ap- 
proval of every enemy of slavery, every lover of hu- 
man rights, every friend of real "reform. It compre- 
hends all the varied interests of the Government and 
the people. 

the gbeelet platform. 

93. Because the platform of the Greeley Democrats, 
so far as it contains any priociples of value, is only 
"Republican thunder," which was stolen by the Cin- 
cinnati conspirators and soreheads, who sought to 
delude the people by assuming Republican virtues 
when they had them not. President Grant had fur- 
nished this thunder in his messages, and they stole it 
and maligned its author at the same time. They 
mixed poison with what they stole, and cunningly 
covered up in their concoction, the abandonment of 
the colored man to Ku-Klux power and other mis- 
cheivous doctrines which would bear speedy and 
destructive fruit, were it possible for the country to 
be cursed by the election of Horace Greeley. 

good effects of republican bulk 

94. Because, under Republican rule ( except where 
so-called "Liberal Repuiilicans," Tammany ruflSans, 
Ku-Klux assassins, and Greeley Democrats prevent) 
ihere is throughout this republic, freedom of speech, 
freedom of the press, freeeom of action, obedience to 
law, prevalence of order, peace and general pros- 
perity. But under Democratic rule, in those portions 
of the country where Democrats and the brutal slave 
system had complete power, freedom of speech and 
of the press were proscribed, freedom of action cir- 
cumscribed, freedom of locomotion contrjlltd, and 



tionate enthusiasm. In his Keuda.lville speech,! murdt-r and assassination, and the terrible evils of a 

Senator Wilson speaks of GfcneraJ,Granl'S habits and I demoralized society were rile, and were never even 

domestic character. He say3»; immeasurably suppressed, until slavery was abolisiied, 

" Nineteen-twentietha of the accusations made fundvLincoln and Grant presided ov«r the nation. 



BAI^EFCX EFFECTS ' OF -DEMOCRATIC KULE. 

95. Because, were the Democrats restored to power 
chaos would come again, and a party of reaction 
wotild control ihe Government and exhibit scenes 
similar to those which occurred on the return of 
Charles the II to England, and which were witnessed 
in France when the Bourbons were re-instated. Tiie 
consequences which would accrue from Democratic 
rule, have been portrayed by a writer whom the 
Greeley Democrats are bound to respect. This 
writer savs: 

" 'Ihe "brain, the heart, the soul of the present 
Democratic party is the rebel element of the South, 
with its Northern allies and sympathizers. It is 
rebel at the core to-day. It would come into power 
with the hate, the chagrin, the wrath, the mortifica- 
tion of ten bitter years to impel and guide its steps. 
It would devote itself to taking off or reducing tax 
after tax until the Treasury was deprived of the 
means ot paying interest on the national debt, and 
would hail the tidings of national bankruptcy with 
unalloyed gladness and unconcealed exultation. 
Whatever chastisement may be deeerved by our na- 
tional sins, we must hope that, this disgrace and hu- 
miliation Would be spared us." 

These were Greeley's own utterances a year ago. 

HORACE GREELEY AND B. GRATZ BROWN. 

96. Because Itepublicans cannot support Horace Greeley 
and B. Gratz Brown, even if nothing is alleged concerninif 
their uufttncss for the olfices of President and Vice Presi- 
dent. They were nominated by an unscrupulous coalition 
representing neither patriotism, integrity, or principle — by 
a piebaUl faction, indeed only by hopes of power and plun- 
der, and united liy nothing except an insane hope to " beat 
Grant." llorace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown are thus in 



" HasAegg'd/iiSM'othetiOiMhe-eai-th 
i To give him leave to toil ;" 

■nvho, notwithstanding all these hardships, all these depriva- 
tions, all these cruel obstacles, Ijroke through them a!l. and 
by the powers of his own brtiin lias mounted to an eleva- 
tion unattainable by the favorites of fortune and the child- 
ren of wealth. As the Muse found Burns at the plouglufio 
Independeuco, the 

"Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye"' 

was with "Wilson at the workman's bench. Schooled in the 
miseries of the poor, his soul thirsted and yearned for means 
and institutions to improve their condition, and give tlicm 
education and opportunities. Study iutt by moonlfght or by 
the blaze of a pine faggot, after a hard day's work, he has 
been intellectuall}-. politically, and socially the architect of 
his own fortune. His great talents shone foith and were 
recognized by his fellow-citizens. They enlisted him in 
their service, and nobly has he done their work. The down- 
trodden and opi)ressed have ever found a champiion in him. 
His eloquent voice has thundered in their behalf, and his 
practical and sagacious mind has conceived and established 
laws to succor and protect them. For nearly forty years 
he nas been an active, avowed, and uncompromising enemy 
of slavery, and when others have t(ince(l\i>^ hsii worked \ 
when others have dazzled «ith ornate generalities, he has 
boiled them down to eti'ectivc action and \Yise law. Ko 
man in the Senate exceeds him in a knowledge of all the 
great questions belonging to public affairs. Never has he 
swerved in the sliglitest degree from the cause of liberty 
and the people. Kepublicanism is to him like the breath 
of life. His honor is spotless, his integrity without stain. 
Modest, able, lirm, reliable, he is the very man to represent 
the people — to be the embodiment of the workingmen. 

grant's inestimable services. 

100. Because this republic owes an incalculable debt of 
gratitude to the illustrious general who brought us safely 
out of the vortex of rebellion, and carried us safely through 
the mightiest civil war which history records; who, alter 
serving as a soldier in Mexico, had a varied espei-ience as 



the camp of the Philistines and among the worshippers of [ pioneer, farmer, and trader, and learned to endure, to per- 
Baal, ^where they must^flnd Jraternity and support. To ^ sist,and never to despair; who was aroused from his hum- 

"" '~' ble and contented position by the firing on Tort Sumter; 
who, four days after the proclamation of Lincoln for troops, 
had raised a company for the contest ; who for some time 
was engaged, as usefully as humbly, in drilling the volun- 
teers ; who was appointed colonel without any request of 
knowledge of his own, and ultimately, step by step attained 
the highe^st military rank ever known in this country, every 
promotion being without his solicitation ; who was first as- 
signed to the District of Southeast Missouri ; who, mani- 
festing immec.iately that prompt and courageous insjiiration 
which ever acuiated him, seized Paducah. and thus secured 
Kentucky to the Union ; who then entered upon a series of 
victories such as the world had never before witnessed — 
daring, brilliant, mai'ked with the most profound military 
skill, consummate in conception, masterly in execution, 
calling into requisition the highest jiowers of the intellect, 
bringing into play every great quality of the human mind — 
cotirage, firmness, wisiiom, foresight, magnanimity, execu- 
tive ability, genius; who gained so m.any important battles 
that only a portion of them can be mentioned — Belmont, 
Port Henry, Fort Donelsou. Shiloh, fuka, Corinth, Oxford, 
Port Gibson, Big, Black, Vicksburg and its multitudinous 
fights, Chattanooga, the "Wilderness, "Weldon, Petersburg, 
Kichmond, Appomattox, where Liberty gloriously termi- 
nated the armed hostility of the rebellion; who gained 
more battles than any other general known in history in the 
same length of time ; who was never defeated, never ontr 
mance'uvered, never out-generaled ; who was so fertile in 
expedients, so quick in adapting*pians to needs and circum- 
stances, and so instant!\neous in arranging new processes as 
to render him invincible ; who fought" distant and success- 
ful campaigns by such accomplished generals as Sherman, 
Thomas. Sheridan, Koseerans, Hooker, Burnside, Meadei, 
and others, and directed their movements as efficiently as 
if they were under his own eye ; who was as magnanimous 
when victory was gained as he was inexorable and coura^ 
geous during the conflict; who from the " modest stillness 
and humility " of peace has been elevated by his own in- 
herent and vast powers of mind to be one of the " fore- 
most men of all the world ;" who, as a civil magistrate, has 
displayed the characteristics demanded in ?/<««field, as he ' 
did those of a military nature when they were required ; 



their former associates they have become renegades, and 
now afiiliato with Tammany thieves and Kulclux Klans. 

REPUBLICAN RECOGNITION OF WOMEN. 

97. Because Kepublican administrations have recognized 
women in the bestowment of office, and President Grant 
lias appointed them to positions of responsibility and im- 
portance more than all preceding Presidents. The four- 
teenth resolution of the Kational Kepublican Platform 
shows that merit and rights are habitually respected by 
liepublieans : " The Kepublican party is mindful of its 
obligations to the loyal women of America for their noble 
donation to the cause of freedom, their admission to wider 
fields of usefulness is viewed with satisfaction, and the 
honest demands of any class of citizens lor additional rights 
ehould be treated with respectful consideration." 

KE.^OTION THHEATENBD. 

98. Because there is now a momentous crisis In the af- 
fairs of the nation ; a coalition has been formed of aspir- 
ants, soreheads, rebels, kuklux, eojiperheads, and sham 
democrats, to nullify aud, if possible, to annihilate what 
has been achieved by the Kepublicans during the past 
eleven years. The cause of equal rights demands tne as- 
sistance of all its friends. Not one of them ought to stand 
aloof because all the movements of the liepublieans are 
not approved, or because all the acts of Grant do not meet 
a unanimous endorsement. Vital principles are at stake, 
and to desert them at this time on account of petty details 
would be, to use a simile of Wendell Phillips, to criticise a 
man for awkwardness when he is defending you jrom 
assassins. 

HENKY WILSON'S GREAT WOETH AND SEKVIOES, 

99. Because the Kepublicans present Senator Henry 
"Wilson to the nation as their candidate for the "Vice Presi- 
dency. No more fitting nomination was ever made. It Is 
a tribute to excellence, integrity, and eminent ability. In 
him we behold a i-epresentative of the workingmen, whose 
every pulse beais in accyrd with theirs ; who was born 



among them; who has tasted the bitterness of poverty, | who, in fine, is of the people and for the people— theirs by 
eventoasking his mother for bread when she had none. t<> intuition, instinct, tuclin.ation and action; lbelj;g livin^.ajjd 
give him ; who has endured .tha fatignea -oJ ha»<i-hand«di, dyiiig; their shield, bulwark, and present and fut^iw^test- , 
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